acpi updates

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:40:40AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 16:28 +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 10:23:32AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > > I'll do processor and stuff if you want me to. Plus I've some PMU bits
> > > > that need testing.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Cool. I'll try to boot my Powerbook.
> > 
> > Patch for pmu stuff is almost finished, so better to wait for that :)
> > Several parts need to be done in callouts though, don't know how far the
> > infrastructure for them is.
> > 
> 
> Cool.
> 
> If you need to read stuff off /dev/pmu you should just use helper_invoke
> ()
> much like hald/linux2/classdev.c:hotplug_event_begin_classdev() does.
> You
> want to put the source in hald/linux2/probing and call the binary
> something
> like hald-probe-pmu. For packaging this can be setuid root and only
> executable by the haldaemon user like we talked about.
> 
> That binary should use libhal to set/get properties. That's what we currently
> do for input devices, look at hald/linux2/probing/probe-input.c (and I've
> just fixed a bug here to cope with the new libhal API, so you want to
> cvs up).
> 
> Does that makes sense or am I way off?

Makes perfect sense :) thanks! 

  Sjoerd
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